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●Morgantina – Serra Orlando; 011-39-091-707-5300; deadimorgantina.it or morgantina.org; earliest historical date associated with Morgantina is 459 BCE, when Ducetius, indigenous Sikel population leader (central Sicily) attacked & captured; fell under Roman hegemony (when Hieron became Roman vassal) in 263 BCE; in 214 BCE, switched allegiance to Carthage; in 211 BCE, became last Sicilian town captured by Romans; given as payment by Rome to Spanish mercenary group; in 133 BCE, where Eunus, leader of slave rebellion known as 1st Servile War, died; in 2nd Servile War, besieged & taken by slaves; final mention comes again from Strabo, who notes that, in his own time (1st Century CE), city had ceased to exist; ancient references to vitis murgentina,grape strain mentioned by Cato, Columella & Pliny Elder (transplanted from Sicily to mainland Italy by 2nd Century BCE.